What will happen for those players that currently have both the SU 122-54 and the Obj. 263 in their garage? If you own just one of them, you will get the new tier 9 Obj. 263, but since you cannot have two copies of the same tank in your garage - will you be credited with the credit cost of the tank, will you get no compensation whatsoever, or will something else happen. Please explain, thx.

Yes, what we need is more Soviet tanks and more fixes/improvements/changes to the already massive Soviet tech tree. Never mind the existing trees (such as Britain's) which are in desperate need of expanding and overhaul. They got their crappy two seconds worth of fame in the horrible December updates - updates which have made the game very hard to enjoy.

I just read the part about MM improvements and there is a thing I don't understand completely

The article states that players will be thrown in the first available battle regardless of the mode if the time in queur exceedes 50s. Does this mean that I will (rarely) be put in assault battles even if I specifically turned them off? Because that would really suck imo. I disabled assault for reasons, you know?

Other than that, the update seems ok. I don't play russian tanks too much, so there's not really anything for me this time, but new tanks are always nice I suppose.

I just read the part about MM improvements and there is a thing I don't understand completely

The article states that players will be thrown in the first available battle regardless of the mode if the time in queur exceedes 50s. Does this mean that I will (rarely) be put in assault battles even if I specifically turned them off? Because that would really suck imo. I disabled assault for reasons, you know?

Other than that, the update seems ok. I don't play russian tanks too much, so there's not really anything for me this time, but new tanks are always nice I suppose.

MM will take that into account that you don't want to play in particular type of battles

I'm highly disappointed WG. Really, I actaully expected you to bring some sense into your heads when so many people on both EU and RU complained.

fighting_falcon93, on 19 January 2018 - 02:22 PM, said:

Please don't move the Obj.263 to tier 9!

If you think that Obj.263 is consistent enough to sit on tier 9, I say it's total bullcrap that it needs to be moved in the first place. If you think that Obj.263 is too weak for tier 10, then buff it, but keep it at tier 10 and stop removing variety from the game!

Why can't you add the Obj.268V4 as an additional tier 10 TD instead?

Moving Obj.263 to tier 9 is a very, very bad change, mainly because:

Obj.263 is a unique vehicle of its class in tier 10 games. Not only does it offer unique gameplay compared to other tier 10 TDs, out of 11 TD branches currently in the game, only 4 of them has a tier 10 TD with an alpha below 600 damage. And with this change you want to change that 4 into a 3.

Obj.263 fits into the branch perfectly. It has low alpha compared to other TDs, just like the other tanks in the branch. It has good mobility and a rear mounted gun with bad gun depression, just like the other tanks in the branch. You even want to keep Obj.263 yourself in the branch, isn't that proof enough that the vehicle fits the branch? So why move it to tier 9? You started by removing tanks that didn't fit in other branches, now it seems you're editing branches left and right just because you can.

Obj.263 costs 692'710 xp to unlock, if we count the xp all the way from the start of the branch. Do you have atleast an idea of the amount of time a player has to put in to grind all that xp? And those players that decide which branch they want to grind depending on the tier 10, which tank do you think they wanted when they started the grind? Exactly, they wanted the Obj.263, not something else.

Let's see what you want this line to become:

What you described above is exactly what the Obj.263 is, except it has a better gun. So you want to "fix" an unpopular line by making it even worse? Hello?!?!?!

Players have made it very clear that this is not what they want. Take a look in this thread at the Russian forum. That's currently 91 pages of discussion where players are very unhappy with this change. Take a look at this other thread at the Russian forum. That's currently 12 pages of discussion where players also are very unhappy with this change. Take a look around on your own European forum, how happy does players seem about this change? WG, if you proceed with this change, never ever dare to say that you listen to your players feedback again.

Instead, I have 2 other suggestions for you:

WG, you say that you listen to our feedback. Now is the time to prove that!

If you agree that Obj.263 should remain at tier 10 with either its current stats or buffed stats, please repost the image above to show your support. Don't forget how WG wanted to destroy the BatChat branch, and now they want to do it again with the Obj.263 branch. We managed to stop them then, and if we protest loud enough, we might be able to stop them again.

When it takes too long to assign a player to a battle, the matchmaker may add extra Battle Modes to those you’ve marked. If the wait takes more than 50 seconds, you’ll enter the first available match in any mode.

Please tell me it does not mean MM will put me in grand battle or encounter if I chose not to play them?

"When it takes too long to assign a player to a battle, the matchmaker may add extra Battle Modes to those you’ve marked. If the wait takes more than 50 seconds, you’ll enter the first available match in any mode." A pretty desperate measure. I see no mention of fixes for real issues like the sound bug and increased connection problems but just a ridiculous fix and a few new blueprint tanks. Fix the bits that are wrong and then ask us what to do next.

When it takes too long to assign a player to a battle, the matchmaker may add extra Battle Modes to those you’ve marked. If the wait takes more than 50 seconds, you’ll enter the first available match in any mode.

Sooo, I may end up in an assault battle even if I've disabled them? I hope this will never happen though since I will be a bit angry..

I've heard that there is Trade-In event running on RU currently, will there be possibility to trade in Defender for 252U (or 252U for Defender)? I've bought painted one and want "normal" 252U

Man send a ticket to WG and ask them to exchange your Defender with the normal 252U. They will do it for free. However, you won't be able to ask for Defender again, this exchange can only be done once. I did it the same for my Patriot and it worked!